Truck hits, kills, woman on bicycle

Police are looking for the driver of a semi-truck that fatally hit a woman on a bike on Chicago's South Side and didn't stop. (Source: WGN - Chicago)

Police are looking for the driver of a semi-truck that fatally hit a woman on a bike on Chicago's South Side and didn't stop. (Source: WGN - Chicago)

By Staff Report

A female bicyclist was struck and killed by a semi-trailer truck in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said.

The semi was entering the Norfolk Southern facility in the 300 block of West 47th Street around 1:40 p.m. Monday when it struck the female bicyclist and immediately fled the scene, Chicago police said, citing early reports.

The unidentified woman, believed to be in her 40s, was dead the scene, authorities said.

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